go seabirds

the power of a language model when it comes to tracking food 😆

https://logactually.com

danger will robinson

JFYI for anyone using it, there are some new features since my first post: https://logactually.com/changelog

(Very intentionally *not* adding notifications or annoying behavior within the app when there's something new, but at the same time it's so danged *fun* to share the latest and greatest in a release...)

@Lee_Holmes ya don’t say ;-)

@Lee_Holmes and also, I didn't want to have the concept of a non-permanent account for implementing demo mode as I'd need to have some kind of background running cleanup task to deal with it, which is not something I have architected for today.

(Just to be clear though, any user can delete their account at any time and it's completely wiped from the database if they do that.)

@Lee_Holmes I'm not confident enough in my ability to architect & maintain the codebase in a good shape where sometimes it's logged to locally cached session storage and other times it's logged to the database on the back-end and some things are cached locally in session storage (especially since 99% of my testing doesn't happen in demo mode).

At any rate I added the feature I mentioned so you can see the e2e:

@Lee_Holmes but before I go, here's a datapoint :-)

@Lee_Holmes 💡💡💡 ok now that I just wrote that out, it occurred to me that one way I could implement this is to not actually log the results from the AI in the db for the RO account, but at least show the user in a dialog "this is what that WOULD be logged as, if you created an account"...

...afkbrb going to go work on that feature 😆

@Lee_Holmes my original aspiration was to have that be possible in demo mode, but I couldn't figure out a way to do it that wouldn't result in either #1 a bunch of one-off code that's only used in demo mode, or #2 the risk that multiple people would be using it at the same time and put something offensive in that others could see, so I ended up going with a simple RO-only account pre-populated with content, which I figured would be a good platform capability to have in the long run.

I'm trying to eat better, so I tried two popular food tracking apps but *really* hate their UX (both had 30+ clicks on first run just to get to the main screen, ugh)

So instead I built my own app that works the way my messy ADHD brain does, where I can just braindump what I ate, and it pulls out the macros and formats it nicely (using AI). I've been pleasantly surprised at how well it works for me.

If you're interested, you can use it for free: https://logactually.com

perimenopause brain frog sucks

I'm an admin on a small discord of friends from college from 30 years ago. We have a simple code of conduct we created several years back, and I recently updated it. Can you tell what the update was?

"Thank you for your attention to this matter!" will live rent free in my head forever

In related news, today Jan 27 is International Holocaust Remembrance Day:

https://www.ushmm.org/remember/international-holocaust-remembrance-day

art is therapy, and a whole lotta people out there need more art and more therapy in their life

this is not fine

I am filled with absolute rage and horror

The old systems asked: “What do you want to do?” The new ones ask: “What can we make you feel so you don’t leave?”

And that explains the whole mess that is the modern internet.

All Democratic social media teams should be fired.

No posting is allowed unless it’s about an actual physical action your senator or rep is taking to stop ICE.

Tell them to go join a protest or shut up till the next vote.